Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, was caught on video calling Homeland Security Sec. Markwayne Mullin a “racist” during a House committee meeting Wednesday focused on department funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following the initial outburst, Green proceeded to tell Mullin to “shut up.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Homeland Security secretary could be seen cocking his head in apparent surprise, as Green continued the verbal attack, repeating “shut up.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Did you just tell me to shut up,” Mullin asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the sound of the gavel rang out, Green shouted back, “It’s my time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I’m not going to let anybody call me a racist chairman,” Mullen calmly told Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-New York, who serves as the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Green denied making the comment before again asking Garbarino to “tell him to shut up.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The chairman called for the encounter to be suspended following Green’s escalation at the House gathering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Green has a history of aggressive outbursts, having been ejected from President Donald Trump’s primetime address to a joint session of Congress for a second year in a row in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was recently defeated in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas’ 18th Congressional District by freshman Rep. Christian Menefee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n